This document discusses how artists depicted the truth and horrors of World War I through their art. It provides examples of paintings, drawings, and sculptures that aimed to realistically portray experiences of soldiers like life in the trenches, gas attacks, and treating wounded veterans. The art sought to convey the bitter reality of war to those on the home front. It also examines how postwar German artists like Otto Dix and George Grosz used a style called Neue Sachlichkeit to critically depict the devastation caused by the war through disturbing, graphic images.

1. Shell Shock
How artists tried to depict the truth of war

2. • Shell Shock and the Case of Harry Farr

3. “war neuroses”
• Shell Shock Documentary

4. • John Singer Sargeent, Gassed,

5. • Otto Schubert
• November 18, 1915
Untitled
My dear Irma, 1000 greetings, your Otto.
Many greetings to your family, most of all to
your brother.

6. • December 1, 1915
Untitled
A thousand greetings,
Otto

7. • March 8, 1916
Building a Trench
Dear Irma, 1000 greetings,
your Otto. [Unclear]

8. • January 24, 1916
Evening Mood at the
Front
Dear Irma, I hope
[unclear] my card. I was
so happy to hear from
Hedwig. Thanks for your
dear package which I
received at Christmas.
[Rest unclear] Otto

9. • Ellis Silas, Roll Call, 1920

10. • George Lambert, Study for
dead trooper and detail of
Turkish trench, Gallipoli
(Pro patria), 24 Feb and 3-
4 March 1919.

11. • George Lambert, 'The Charge of the 3rd Light Horse Brigade at the
Nek, 7 August 1915'

12. • A view looking across the Nek in February 1919

14. • Silas, The Last Assembly, from Crusading at Anzac, 1915

15. Silas, At the Water Hole From Crusading at
Anzac

16. Silas, In the Trenches, Quinn’s Post (CaA)

18. The Hospital Ship Galeka

19. • Messines
Ridge from Hill
63, George
Edmund
Butler 1918.

20. • George Edmund Butler, the Fight at the quarry outside Bapaume, 1918

21. • George Edmund Butler - The Butte, Polygon Wood

23. George Edmund Butler, Bellevue from Korek,
c.1918 (Passchendaele)

24. Images of Passchendaele

25. • Butler, A roadside cemetery by Neuve Eglise

27. • Paul Nash, The Ypres
Salient at Night (1918)

28. • Paul Nash, The
Menin Road, 1918

29. • The Menin Road, Ypres ~ 14
September 1917:

30. • Chateau Wood; Australian troops walk along duckboards through the
remains of Chateau Wood, Third Ypres

31. • Paul Nash, Wire, 1918
"I am no longer an artist
interested and curious, I am
a messenger who will bring
back word from the men
who are fighting to those
who want the war to go on
for ever. Feeble, inarticulate,
will be my message, but it
will have a bitter truth, and
may it burn their lousy
souls.” (Nov 16 1917 letter
to his wife)

32. • Sunrise, Inverness
Copse

33. • Paul Nash, we are
making a new
world

35. • Battle of Menin
Road Ridge, 20 -
25 September
1917: A German
KIA, his arm flung
across his chest,
in the wreckage
of a gun
emplacement
near Zonnebeke.

36. • The Menin
Road by N. E.
Fiske
• Oil on canvas,
49.5 x 74.5
cm

38. • George Edmund Butler, Menin Road from Hooge Crater, c.1918

39. • John Singer Sargeent, Gassed,

40. • Warning: next image is gruesome.

42. Anna Coleman Ladd’s Studio

43. • Christmas party at Anna Ladd’s studio, 1919

44. • Sculptors and artists designed lifelike masks for gravely wounded
soldiers. (Anna Coleman Ladd papers, Archives of American Art, S.I.)

46. Anna Coleman Ladd, studio for prosthetic
masks

47. Horace Nicholls, Repairing War's Ravages: Renovating Facial
Injuries. Various plates and attachments in different stages of
completion. (From Francis Wood’s studio, ca. 1916

48. Postwar Art in Germany
• (warning: graphic & violent images ahead)

49. • Otto Dix, The
Trench,

50. • Die Nacht (The Night), Max
Beckman, 1918-1919
• 52 x 60 inches
• Oil on canvas
• Neue Sachlichkeit
• (new objectivity)

51. • George Grosz, Made in Germany,
1920
• drawn in pen 1919, photo-lithograph
published 1920 in the portfolio God
with us (Gott mit Uns)

52. • George Grosz as Dada Death in Berlin, 1918

53. • The Eclipse of the sun, George
Grosz, 1926

54. • George Grosz,
War Cripples

56. Dix, Gassed to Death, 1924

57. • John Singer Sargeent, Gassed,